Voyager

A mobile-first Lemmy web client

Voyager for Lemmy

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

What does Voyager currently support?

Light/dark mode
View and subscribe to communities
Multi account support
Single comment thread context view
Upvote, downvote and reply to threads and comments
Interact with user profiles
Comment thread collapsing
A bunch of swipe gestures
Messaging, mentions and replies
Creating new posts (url/photo/text)
Deleting/editing comments
Deleting/editing posts
Swipe to hide posts
Saving/bookmarking
Favorites
Android theme (beta)

What is on the roadmap?

More customization
Native notifications and badging
Mod features
Translations
...and more!

💪 Mobile webapps are awesome

Native apps can be great, but we believe in the strengths of the web. Why use a web-based Lemmy client?

Cross-platform Use the familiar Voyager interface on your phone, tablet, desktop computer, and more!
Self-hostable No worries about your favorite app getting taken down, and you can customize to your desire!
Lightweight No large installation bundles - and it's easy to try it out

Deployment

Official Deployment

The Voyager team maintains a deployment at:

🐭 Production: vger.app

Self-Host

There are two ways you can run Voyager as a PWA in a production environment. The recommended method is using docker. We also support a traditional deployment method without docker. Read below to see how to get each method set up.

Environment variables

CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS (optional) e.g. lemmy.world,lemmy.ml,sh.itjust.works - a comma separated list of suggested servers. The first will be used as default view for logged out users. You can specify only one if you want.

Docker Deployment

In order to host Voyager yourself you can use the provided Dockerfile to build a container with Voyager. The Docker container itself does not provide any SSL/TLS handling. You'll have to add this bit yourself. One could put Voyager behind popular reverse proxies with SSL Handling like Traefik, NGINX etc.

Tip: Use Watchtower to keep your deployment automatically up to date!

From source

checkout source git clone https://github.com/aeharding/voyager.git
go into new source dir: cd voyager
build Docker image: docker build . -t voyager
start container: docker run --init --rm -it -p 5314:5314 voyager

Prebuilt

pull image docker pull ghcr.io/aeharding/voyager:latest
start container: docker run --init --rm -it -p 5314:5314 voyager

Note: The provided Dockerfile creates a container which will eventually run Voyager as non-root user.

Traditional Deployment

While Docker makes things easier, Voyager can be hosted by any HTTP server (nginx, apache etc).

# Build from source (Or, download web artifact from Github Releases)
pnpm install
pnpm build

# Then, serve ./dist with your favorite HTTP server - nginx, apache etc
# (make sure 404 goes to index.html)
# Below is a simple example for dev/testing (not recommended for production):
npm install --global http-server
cp dist/index.html dist/404.html # magic file for http-server
http-server dist

Optionally, you can serve a custom list of instance(s) in the /_config endpoint, with JSON payload of following format:

{ "customServers": ["lemmy.world", "lemm.ee"] }

For production, serve index.html with Cache-Control: no-cache and /assets with a long cache period (files in assets are immutable)

Ecosystem

🇫🇮 m.lemmy.world - Voyager hosted by the mastodon.world team. Contact/privacy
🇸🇬 v.opnxng.com - Voyager hosted by Opnxng in Singapore. Contact/privacy
🇲🇽 voyager.nohost.network - Voyager hosted by Nohost in Mexico. Contact/privacy
🇺🇸 vger.thesanewriter.com - Voyager hosted by the lemmy.thesanewriter.com team. Contact/privacy

Note: Community deployments are NOT maintained by the Voyager team. They may not be synced with Voyager's source code. Please do your own research about the host servers before using them.

💖 Sponsors

If you're enjoying Voyager, you can sponsor it:

Alexander Harding

We would also appreciate sponsoring other contributors to Voyager. If someone helps you solve an issue or implement a feature you wanted, supporting them would help make this project and OS more sustainable.

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Please check out CONTRIBUTING.md for details on contributing to Voyager. Thank you! 💙

🛜 Add a lemmy instance to the curated list

Voyager curates Lemmy servers for sign up (see the data). If you would like to add an instance, please read the curated servers policy.

📲 PWA

Voyager works best added to the homescreen. There are certain features that only work there, like badging and smooth page transitions.

🦄 Stack

React - The library for web and native user interfaces
Vite - Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Ionic - The mobile SDK for the Web
Virtua - A zero-config, fast and small virtual list
vite-plugin-pwa - Prompt for update, Web Push Notifications and Web Share Target API

👨‍💻 Contributors

Shoutout to @fer0n for the great logo and splashscreen! And thank you 💙 all of our contributors to the codebase:

aeharding / voyager

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